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MEAT OR VEGETABLE CHOPPER.

No. 536,014. Patented Mar. 19, 189-5 ATENT rerun,

' UNETEU rates JAMES CLARENCE BULLOCK, OF READSBOROUGH, VERMONT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE M. BEMIS, OF SAME PLACE.

MEAT OR VEGETABLE CHOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 536,014, dated March 19, 1895. Application filed March 23, 1894. gerial No, 504,825. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- ting edge which is straight, and which is dis- Be it known that I, JAMES CLARENCE BUL- posed transversely of the base. Thetop of LOCK, a citizen of the United States, residing the knife is provided with perforations in at Readsborough, in the county of Benningwhich are secured the lower bent ends 14E of 55 ton and State of Vermont, have invented a an inverted V-shaped connecting-frame 15, new and useful Meat or Vegetable Chopper, which is hinged at its upper end to the lower of which the following is a specification. face of the operating lever, whereby, by rais- The invention relates to improvements in ing and lowering the operating lever, the meat and vegetable choppers. knife is vertically reciprocated. The upper 60 The objects of the present invention are to end of the V-shaped frame is hinged by means simplify and improve the construction of meat of a plate 16 secured to the lever and provided and vegetable choppers, and to provide an inwith an intermediate groove or bend to receive expensive one capable of rapid and effective the upper end of the connecting frame. operation, with great ease and convenience to The receptacle has mounted in it a verti- 65 IS the operator. cally bowed, centrally arranged stem 18,

The invention consists in the construction which is round and which serves as a guide and novel combination and arrangement of for the knife, the latter being provided at its parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated top with a centrally-arranged horizontallyin the accompanying drawings, and pointed disposed guide-flange 19, having an opening 70 out in the claims hereto appended. receiving the stem. The lower ends of the In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective inverted V-shaped frame are passed through View of a meat and vegetable chopper conthe perforations of the knife and are bent upstructed in accordance with this invention. ward against the opposite sides thereof, there- Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 3 by providing a simple and efficient attach- 75 is a horizontal sectional view. Fig. 4 is a dement of the knife.

tail view, illustrating the means for limiting The standard 2 is provided, at its lower porthe upward movement of the operating lever. tion, with an opening 20, and has journaled Like numerals of reference indicate like on it within the opening atransverse rockparts in all the figures of the drawings. shaft 21, provided at its ends with upward- 8o l designates abase, from one end of which extending arms 22 and23, arranged at ananrises a standard 2, and journaled on the upgle to each other. One of the arms is conper end of the standard, ina bifurcation 3 nected, by means ofa vertical rod 24, with the thereof, by a transverse pin 4, is an operating rear end of.the operating lever 5, whereby the lever 5, projecting rearward slightly from the shaft is rocked simultaneously with the ver- 85 standard and extending forward over and tical reciprocation of the knife. The vertical slightly beyond the front end of the base and. connecting rod has its upper end bent at an 1 terminating in a handle 6. 0n the front porangle and passed through the operating lever tion of the base is rotatably mounted a cylinto form a pivot. drical receptacle 7, consisting preferably of The other arm 23 of the rock-shaft is at- 0 a sheet'metalcylinder 8, forming the sides of tached to the rear end of a longitudinallythe receptacle, and a circular wooden bottom disposed pitman 25, which is guided by an eye 9, having a peripheral rabbetand fitting in 26 of the base, and which is provided at its the lower end qf the cylinder. front end with a pawl 27 engaging with the The bottom of the receptacle is provided peripheral teeth of the receptacle, whereby 5 5 with peripheral teeth 10, and has, on its lower the latter is rotated to bring different portions face, a central. bearing-socket 11, receiving a of its contents successively beneath the blade vertical journal 12, of the base, and on the to subject its contents thoroughly to the acjournal the receptacle rotates to bring differtion of the knife. The pawl is formed by ent portions of its contents beneath a vertidoubling the connecting rod or pitman 26 at 100 cally-reciprocating knife 13. the front end and bending the doubled por- The knife 13 is provided with a lower cuttion inward at an angle; and it has sufficient play to enable it to pass the inclined faces of the teeth without rotating the receptacle backward.

The upward movement of the knife is limited by a transverse pin 28, extending through the rear portion of the operating lever and projecting from opposite sides thereof and located adjacent to and arranged to engage the standard. This prevents any unnecessary movementon the part of the operator.

It will be seen that the meat and vegetable chopper is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, that it is positive and reliable in operation, and that it is capable of effecting a rapid chopping of the contents of the receptacle with a minimum amount of labor on the part of the operator.

Changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

What I claim is- 1. In a chopper, the combination of a base, a standard rising therefrom, a receptacle rotatively mounted on the base and provided with peripheral teeth and having a vertical stem, an operating lever journaled on the standard, a vertically reciprocating knife guided by the stem and arranged within the receptacle and provided With opposite perforations, an inverted V-shaped frame hingedly connected to the operating lever and having its terminals hooked into the perforations of the knife, apitman provided with a pawl engaging the peripheral teeth of the receptacle, and a rock shaft connected with the pitman and with the operating lever, substantially as described.

2. In a chopper, the combination of a base,

a standard rising therefrom, a receptacle rotatably mounted on the base and provided with peripheral teeth, an operatinglever journaled on the standard and extending rear ward therefrom, a knife arranged in the receptacle and connected with the operating lever, a rock'shaft journaled on the standard and provided at its ends with arms, a vertical connecting rod having one end attached to one of the arms and its other end connected to the rear end of the lever, and a pitman connected tothe other arm of the shaft and provided with a pawl engaging the peripheral teeth of the receptacle, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a base provided with a guide, a standard rising from the base and having an opening, a receptacle rotatably mounted on the base and provided with peripheral teeth, a rock-shaft journaled in the opening of the standard and provided at its end with arms arranged at an angle to each other, an operating lever fulcrumed on the standard and extending rearward therefrom and provided with a stop arranged to engage the standard to limit its upward movement, a knife carried by the lever, a rod connecting one of the arms of the shaft with the rear end of the lever, and a pitman connected to the other arm of the shaft and arranged in the guide of the base and provided with a pawl engaging the peripheral teeth of the receptacle, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES CLARENCE BULLOCK.

W i tn esses:

A. B. CLARK, W. D. HOWE. 

